This week’s first two picks are nearly identical events: banded group rides on pretzel routes at 7am UTC on Saturday. You can’t ride both, though, so you’ll need to choose!
Our other event picks this week include two long group rides and a race from our friends at HISP. Ride on!
🤝 Beth’s Banded Badge Hunt
✅ Banded Ride ✅ Beginner-Friendly ✅ Endurance Challenge
Beth’s Badge Hunt is a series of monthly rides taking on big Zwift routes. Led by Wobble Cycling Club’s Beth Phillips, these are banded rides, so everyone can ride at whatever effort level they’d like.
This weekend’s ride is on the London Pretzel route (56.2km, 576m).
Saturday, June 28 @ 7am UTC/3am ET/12am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/5018049
🤝 Bikealicious Rubberband Joy Ride
✅ Banded Ride ✅ Beginner-Friendly ✅ Endurance Challenge
The friendly Bikealicious crew is leading a “keep together” group ride on the Watopia Pretzel route (72.6km, 1361m). Grab this route badge if you haven’t done so yet, which comes with 1440 of extra XP! This is a banded ride, so as long as you keep turning those pedals over, you’ll hang with the group. Ride whatever pace you’d like!
Saturday, June 28 @ 7am UTC/3am ET/12am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/5029413
🤝 JETT Endurance Ride 100km 2.5~3.3w/kg
✅ Endurance Challenge ✅ Pace Options
Here’s a popular long ride with two pace options: B group at 3-3.3 W/kg, or C at 2.5-2.9 W/kg. Both groups will be riding The Big Ring for 100km, with optional efforts on some of the intermediate segments if you’d like.
Choose your desired pace, listen to the ride leader, and get that endurance work done! Both categories have a leader (yellow beacon) and sweepers.
Saturday, June 28 at 8:05pm UTC/4:05pm ET/1:05pm PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/5029638
🥇 LA DOMINGUERA DE HISP
✅ Route Badge ✅ Popular Event
Looking for a race? This one already has a solid number of signups, and it’s held on France’s new Bon Voyage route (31.4km, 155m).
Sunday, June 29 @ 8:05am UTC/4:05am ET/1:05am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/5030242
🤝 The BMTR Fundo
✅ Popular Ride ✅ Legacy Leader ✅ Endurance Challenge ✅ Kit Unlock
A regularly-featured event here on Zwift Insider, the BMTR Fundo consistently gets lots of joiners because it’s well-led and run consistently week after week, year after year.
This week’s ride is on France’s new Knights of the Roundabout route, and you have four distance groups to choose from, all the way up to 100 miles!
Saturday, June 28 @ 12:10pm UTC/8:10am EDT/5:10am PDT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/5029515
How We Make Our Picks
We choose each weekend’s Notable Events based on a variety of factors including:
- Is the event unique/innovative in some way?
- Are celebrities (pro riders, etc) attending/leading?
- Are signup counts already high, meaning the event is extra-popular?
- Does the ride include desirable unlocks or prizes?
- Does the event appeal to ladies on Zwift? (We like to support this under-represented group!)
- Is it for a good cause?
- Is it just plain crazy (extra long races, world record attempts, etc)?
- Is it a long-running, popular weekly event with a dedicated leader who deserves a shout out?
In the end, we want to call attention to events that are extra-special and therefore extra-appealing to Zwifters. If you think your event qualifies, comment below with a link/details and we may just include it in an upcoming post!
